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Roy's amazing. He's very intelligent but some times it looks like he is dumb, like when hawkeye leaved on "vacation" and he talked to her by the telephone, it's was cool and funny at the same time. About his alchemy, it's very powerfull regardless of it's weekness.

I think we can all come to the conclusion that state alchemists are lazy bums who can't try to be more innovative once they've found a shtick for themselves. A good policy would be to stop naming them after what they specialize in. Makes them want to stick to it all the more.

The fact that Mustang can create a simulacrum of a human body including detailed enough dental work that the doctor could pass it off as real (note that I do not same detailed enough to FOOL the said doctor) shows that his skill is quite good.

Also, he is a candidate for opening the gate. This alone is proof enough that he is greater than the average alchemist in more than just fire alchemy.

Besides, even if he had the key to let him read the flame alchemy left behind for him, he still needs to be better than average just to understand it.

I wonder if Roy would become Furher in the end of the manga. If he doesn't... Well, that just wouldn't do his character justice... He's surely powerful enough to become one? We'll have to see what become of Wrath, I guess?

I think we can all come to the conclusion that state alchemists are lazy bums who can't try to be more innovative once they've found a shtick for themselves. A good policy would be to stop naming them after what they specialize in. Makes them want to stick to it all the more.

Actually I think this is closer to a real military where people aren't experts in all fields. Truth be told, Mustang is essentially a one trick pony but the one trick he's mastered is amazingly good at killing people. I would state that all State Alchemists are atleast proficient as they have to take a written test which I'm sure was generic information. Also @yezhanquan due to the nature of his alchemy, he has to fight alone. Flames do spread and if an enemy rushed one of his helpers he would have to possibly burn both and so it's much easier for him to go solo.

A good policy would be to stop naming them after what they specialize in.

They're generally named after a physical trait or a character trait. Mustang and Tucker are exceptions, but except them, you have :

--- Alex Louis Armstrong, the Strong Arm Alchemist
--- Basque Gran, the Iron Blood Alchemist. I think that Basque Gran was a military man before being an alchemist, and his State Alchemist name must come from his reputation as a soldier and officer.
--- Joliot Comanche, the Silver Alchemist.
--- Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist.

we've seen him transmute a somewhat passable human body out of a pig corpse, and hydrogen and oxygen gas out of water.

I just realized that his alchemy doesn't even technically set the thing on fire itself. What he does is just transmute a fuse from dust and adjust the air pressure. The sparks are responsible for the flames itself.

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Okay. Finally watched it and thought it was great. It's hilarious how every opponent he faces manages to counter his flames early on(You'd think he'd learn from this). His resourcefulness and some quick thinking made for a great comeback though. So, max kudos to him. Besides, who knew he had such a killer bod.

It's hilarious how every opponent he faces manages to counter his flames early on(You'd think he'd learn from this).

I don't think his weakness is widely known though. Only people who are close to him or once fought by his side should know how his alchemy works and therefore its weakness (for example Isaac). Lust is an exception, she had observed him for a long time and knew him well.

The basics of starting a fire: spark, fuel, oxygen. What Lust did was to deny the "spark" part (created by his gloves, most of the time). Seriously, if Roy had been a smoker, even fewer people can stop him.